The original Hyperlapse pulls visual data from Google's Street View and melds it into a timelapse video that lets you see what it's like to travel along a chosen route. Instagram's Hyperlapse, by contrast, lets users film a long series of still photos and compiles them together into a timelapse video.

Although the products share the same name, the inspiration for the Instagram's Hyperlapse came from the industry term 'hyperlapse', coined by the American filmmaker Dan Ekert. It is defined by Wikipedia as: "a video post-production technique that improves the appearance of a moving shot by reducing the jitter that results from camera movement during exposure. It is useful for processing a time accelerated tracking shot or other timelapsesequences."

The maker of original hyperlapse also had time to thank Instagram on the product's company website. It read (sic): "i got an E-mail from a journalist from the San Fransico Cronicle. She wanted to interview me because she noticed Instagram had just released an App with the same name! Well, almost, they call it Hyperlapse by Instagram."

"That explains a lot. A lot of users accidentally downloaded our App instead of the Instagram App. To prevent users from downloading the wrong App, we increased the price to US $ 0.99."